Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Droney's illness has not abated, and in fact, reports are that his condition has worsened to the point where he is now hospitalized. Should the condition prove fatal, Droney would still win his election unopposed and a successor would be appointed by the governor...
...objections of her parents, the young woman puts on a Greek wedding dress and marries her lover at the county courthouse. They soon move into a farmhouse on the estate. Three months later, the bride seems despondent. She is found one afternoon lying on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound in her head. A coroner rules that she has committed suicide, and she is buried in the Staunton Hill graveyard, beneath a headstone that bears the Greek words for Little Flower. Her husband moves to Hoover, Ala., works as a stockbroker, and then returns to Athens in April...
...Yale's second consecutive tie, coming off a 3-3 sleeper with Columbia last weekend, and an all-but-fatal blow to the Elis' Ivy title hopes. While Yale racked up 202 passing yards, the Quakers ran from the wishbone for the heavy offensive work. Penn backs Dennis Grosvenor and Kevin Blake tallying the two Penn scores...
Salmonella is a species of bacteria that infects dairy products, especially food made with eggs, Postel said. Diarrhea is the main symptom of such poisoning, but it is not usually a serious or fatal disease, he said...
...French-speaking or Hebrew-speaking or Vietnamese-speaking children; and, perhaps most cogently, that Hispanic students who speak mostly Spanish at school and whose parents speak mostly Spanish at home will never really learn to compete in American society as a whole. Cultural pride notwithstanding, this could prove a-fatal handicap in a specialized, highly technological nation where language skills are more important than at any other time in history. What is more, the perpetuation of a large subculture with little or no skill in English could lead to something the U.S. has so far managed to avoid: the rise...